Wardrobe.



' PATENTED Nov. 13, 1906.

R. BURPORD.

WARDROBE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.25, 1905. RENEWED OUT. 9, 1906.

gnuentoz UNITED STATES PATENT Omar.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 1906.

- Applioation filed April 25, 1905. Renewed October 9, 1906. Serial No. 338.184-

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT BURFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Liverpool, in the county of Oolumbiana and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Wardrobe; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a wardrobe, and has for its object to provide a wardrobe which can be constructed exceedingly inexpensively and which may be readily attached to or detached from the walls of a room.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character with a folding door adapted to be folded into a small space when desired and which can be readily opened, as will hereinafter be more'fully de scribed and shown.

With these and other object in view the invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wardrobe constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig.3 is a perspective view of the angle-irons. Fig. 4 is a sectional view showin the ball-and-socket devices for connecting the slats of the door with the support and guide.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an upper covering or top piece of a wardrobe having a corresponding bottom piece 2, said top and bottom being connected by supports 3 and 4. The top and bottom pieces 1 and 2 are uadrant-shaped, as shown, and are provide with recesses 5 and 6, adapted to-receive the supports 3 and 4, whereby the device will be enabled to fit snugly against the walls of a room. The supports 3 and 4 are secured to the bottom piece in any desired manner and are secured to the top piece 1 by means of angle-irons, which fit into recesses, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawin s. The angle-irons are provided with upwarfly-projecting flanges 9, by which the wardrobe is securely fastened to the walls of aroo'm, said irons bein provided with suitable perforations 10 or the reception of screws, by means of which said an le-irons are secured to the wardrobe and to t e walls of a room.

A resilient metallic rod 12 is provided for the purpose of guiding and supporting the door of the wardrobe. The rod 12 has a free end 13, supported by a hook 14, said rod being curved to'follow the rounded outer edge of the quadrant-shaped top piece 1, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawin s, and forms a gooseneck 15, whereby the ereinafter-desoribed hooks 17 may be slid closely against the Wall of the room when the door is folded.

The door of the wardrobe is composed'of vertical slats 16, suspended from the rod 12 by means of hooks 17. The hooks 17 are provided with balls 18 at their ends, adapted to engage sockets 19, which are suitably secured to the ends of the slats 16 in any desired manner. Instead of having ordinary eyes to the sockets 19 I use a slot, so as to enable the door to be more easily folded, as will be readily understood.

The slats 16 are provided with suitable hinges 20, adapted to enable them to be compactly folded and shoved to one end of the rod 12.. I also employ a hook-and-eye hinge 21 in order to enable the door to be opened in the middle, whereby access may be had to the interior of the wardrobe by folding a section instead of all of the door, as will be readily understood. The rod 12 on the bottom piece is engaged by the slats in like manner as rod 12, the rod 12 corresponding in every particular to rod 12.

The upright supports 3 and 4 may be screwed to the wall also when necessary.

It will .be seen that my wardrobe is exceedingly economical in manufacture, that it is simple and durable, that it is adapted to be attached to the side of a room and to fit snugly in a corner of the same, and that 1t is durable and serviceable.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is' 1. A top piece for wardrobes provided with a rod conforming to its front edge, one end of the rod being secured near one end of the edge and provided with a gooseneckextending to the end of the edge to permit a closure to slide approximately to the end of the gooseneck, and a hook secured near the other end of the edge and having the other end of the rod freely resting thereon to permit the removal of the closure.

2 sooner 2. A wardrobe, comprising va, top, a botfreely resting thereon, and a flexible closure 10 tom, supports connecting the top and botsliding on the rods at its top and bottom. tom; rods conforming to the front edges of In testimony whereof I have hereto efthe top and the bottom, one end of each rod 'fixed my signature in the presence of two 5 being secured near one end of the top or the witnesses.

bottom front edge and provided with a ROBERT BURFORD.

ooseneck extending to the end of said edge Witnesses: l iooks secured near the other ends of said LILLIAN E. Bunronn, edges and having the other ends of rods, H. L. RAYLE. 

